Round up of Editing Week 4

This week spencer was left alone to edit from tuesday til friday, as you can imagine it was alot of pressure put upon him as the deadline was on friday and he was on his own to meet it.

However he managed to do a lot of work by himself, it was lucky that spencer was the one left behind as he is the most skilled editor out of all of us. However even though we were in swanage on a field trip for geography we all managed to contact spencer once a day and answer any question he had or give him any advice.

This week spencer sorted out our music, he didn't like the music choices we gave him so he decided to change it, we trusted him to do a good job, and we are all happy with the final outcome.

Also spencer added an echoing effect of the girl screaming, this makes the scene a lot scarier and brings a dillusional effect to the noise, this matches the picture extremely well as spencer also added a blurry effect, he crossed the shots so one plays on top of another, this is pretty easily done on adobe premier pro but it creates a very professional look. 

WE have now finished editing, i hope you now know exactly what went on.

Round up of Editing Week 3

This week we shave captured all the footage we had took from our back up shoot, we started to work a lot harder this week as we were behind other groups with our work as we had to do a back up shoot and we didn't want to have a big panic when it came closer to the deadline.

We continued to edit during lesson time but we also came in during our free periods aswel, not all of them but a decent proportion of them as we wanted to get as much editing done as we could.  As you can see above we commited ourselves to as many study periods as we could, but not all of them as we needed a balance in our life.

This week James, Ciara and India, did a lot more of the editing, this is because Spencer is going to be left alone next week for 3 days which he'll have to edit by himself, so we decided we wanted to make it as equal as possible.

We sat down in our editing suite together and had a group meeting on what exactly we wanted spencer to do next week, so even though we weren't there we were still contributing. We told him about the speed we wanted the shots to be in the shed scene and we talked about different techniques and effects we could use to add to the sequence, we didn't come up with any final ideas though so we told him to experiment over the next week.

Also when it came to music all three of us sat down and decided on 3 different tracks we would give to spencer so he could choose which one he liked best.

Round up of editing Week 2

This week we started the editing of the footage from our main shoot, we were a lot happier with the footage we came back with as we had changed all the things that we decided we needed to change and improve.

One big difference between this shooting and the last is that we kept up to date with the shot log, this made it a lot easier when it came to editing as we knew exactly where on the tape the shot we wanted was. This is a picture of all of us discussing the shot log and deciding which piece of footage we needed to capture next.

This week we were in the editing room for alot longer then the previous, we had all our lessons to edit, so the same as you saw in my last editing post plus we came in two lunchtimes for half an hour and two after school sessions for an hour. We could choose any two lunchtimes out of tuesday, wednesday and thursday and any two after school periods of of the same days. The whole group didn't have to do the same sessions as eachother and this worked to our advantage as we had group members in the editing suite pretty much all the time out of the six possibly sessions we could choose.

We made some big decisions when it came to editing this week, we decided that we would have the scene of the girl in the shed second as apposed to it being the opening scene, this meant that the audience could link the two scenes together and it meant that we could finish the sequenmce off with something scary that will interest the audience.

We didn't need to re-shoot for this however we could just move the footage around on the programme we were using, adobe premier pro.This programme is fantastic,  it has many effects and different cool things you are able to add when editing.

Also this week we had decided on the music we were using, the music was very eerie and spooky, it had a slow tempo, we got this music from 'freeplaymusic' this is a great website you can get music from, and its all uncopyrited, so we were able to use it in our sequence.

However we have had some problems this week not with the editing but with the lighting in our shed scene, we have tried to adjust the light using the darkener on the programme but this doesn't looked realistic, we are looking for more of a strip of light instead of the whole shed being lit up, so we are going to have to re-shoot this weekend.

Rough Cut of our Opening Sequence

Due to this only being a rough edit, there is no need for titles to be added.
However, the lack of title shots means that there a cuts that look really jumpy as they are supposed to be split by a title shot.
Our Thoughts

• We think that overall we made good progress however by doing our rough cut we have seen vital errors and mistakes and missing shots which we need to improve on in order to make our final sequence better
• We think both actors and actress worked well however some shots can still be improved
• We need to sort out missing shots and make sure they are included next time
• We need to look at finer details-eg OCD actor should have shirt tucked in at all times, shoes on at all times, same pen in each shot
• We like the music choice we have made at the start of the sequence
• We need to change the POV shot from the toaster to the fridge as its not a good shot
• Props need to checked through-pen, toast same colour, butter needs to be soft, 4 keys

Teacher Feedback

•  Like the shed door scene but need to think quite carefully about make up- need to look at fake blood- doesn't look realistic
• OCD- they would know when the news would be on therfore play the news as soon as radio turned on then music plays after when he goes to turn off the radio
• Calender shot-already have the 24th circled? do crosses?
• He needs to switch of the radio

Round up of Editing Week 1

This week we were in the editing room, capturing the footage we got from our practice shoot on the weekend. It was the first time we had done some editing since we edited for the preliminary task, This time we were with different people, and in a different group.

We were pretty confident that we would do well with the editing this week, as we all knew what to do due to the experience we gained from our preliminary task and other media projects where we needed to use editing.

We got straight to work capturing all the footage we took, and straight away we realised that we were missing some of the shots we intended to shoot. However it was just a practice shoot and that is the purpose of a practice shoot, to learn from your mistakes so you don't make them again for the real thing.

As we were editing for the practice shoot it wasn't as important so we just editing during lessons, this is my timetable for the week, we edited in the periods highlighted in red, this periods are 40minutes long, so 7 x 40, is 280 minutes, so we spent 4 hours and 40 minutes editing.

We sat down as a group on friday lunchtime to discuss the weeks events and to talk about anything we might need to improve or remeber for next time we shoot.

We came up with a list of problems we had to solve and things we have decided to change for the main shoot:

• We have to keep the storyboard with us at all times to ensure that we know exactly what we want in each shot
• We need to shoot in chronological order so we dont forget any shots, this will be ok as we  only shoot in two different locations
• We need to keep up to date with the shot log so when it comes to capturing we know exactly where the shot we want is on the tape
• We need to make sure that when shooting we do more then just one take, as in a number of cases on the practice shoot we moved on to the next shot instead of checking that the footage we had got was good enough
• We have to make sure that we keep using the clapperboard so we know what take we want to use

Music

The music that is featured in our sequence is from one of the tracks on the free play music website.
The track is called Abandoned Infirmary (click link for music sample). The track creates an eerie atmosphere and builds up suspense towards the end.
However, the track has been cut and copied across so it fits the desired time while watching the sequence. I have tried my best to edit out the cuts between tracks, and they are barely noticeable, but if you listen closely the track skips a bit in two or three places.